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DOÑA MANUELA'S HATDoña Manuela shares her small rancho with chickens, a burro and her great grandson Guillermo. Her husband Domingo had been dead for only a few months when her grandson brought her the two week old infant, covered with sores and crying continually. She nursed him back to health, at times going without food herself to buy the baby powdered milk. The miracle of renewed life was mutual. Doña Manuela's ceremonial hat is crowned with raptor feathers and rimmed with small metal dangles whose music brings her mind back to the Gods. Doña Manuela is a treasure to her family as she holds the mysteries of the old ways embedded like jewels in the matrix of the Huichol language, partially or totally lost to younger generations who live in the meztizo community to the Gods. |
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